Hello, long time vipassana (early 90s) meditator from Oregon, love gardening, kids, dogs, chickens and watching nature do her thing. It's raining and chilly here in Oregon the 5th of November 2013. Gardens are all tucked in, produce is preserved and stored, paintings are coming along, dogs asleep under my chair here in my kitchen. It would be nice to have some Dhamma chats with like minded folk once in awhile. I like just about any Dhamma topic so expect me to popup just about anywhere.

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Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. Phena Sutta: Foam

If you have asked me of the origination of unease, then I shall explain it to you in accordance with my understanding: Whatever various forms of unease there are in the world, They originate founded in encumbering accumulation. (Pārāyanavagga)

Exalted in mind, just open and clearly aware, the recluse trained in the ways of the sages:One who is such, calmed and ever mindful, He has no sorrows! -- Udana IV, 7

I've been wandering through the threads, this is a very nice board and a great diverse group of people. I am going to have so much fun chatting with you @retrofuturist, @SarathW, @mikenz66. Thank you...

Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. Phena Sutta: Foam

Greetings Greenthumb and welcome to DhammawheelIt's nice to meet another long term student of SN Goenka.With metta,Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

The heart of the path is SO simple. No need for long explanations. Give up clinging to love and hate, just rest with things as they are. That is all I do in my own practice. Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. Of course, there are dozens of meditation techniques to develop samadhi and many kinds of vipassana. But it all comes back to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. - Ajahn Chah

@Ben, Nice to meet a fellow Goenka Student! @Hickersonia, I wish it was as easy to use words as it is as the use of paint and brush for me. Language both spoken and written have not been easy for me, I am totally sight oriented and an introvert to boot, I am well suited for meditation and painting. @David N. Snyder, @bodom, Thank you, and thank you all for the kind greetings.

Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick this has been taught by the Kinsman of the Sun. Phena Sutta: Foam